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> Incidentally, I'm not bad-mouthing monkeys;
> they're well-adapted to their environment, and I'm
> sure are very generally adaptable, and technically
> adept in that environment. However, they don't
> have the same planning and organization abilities
> (which I see as a function of communications, oral
> and written), and they don't have the same
> technical skills (by which I don't mean gas
> powered engines, nanotech, or anything that
> advanced). And no, we don't have an exclusive on
> intelligence. I do not think monkey could have
> built the pyramids.

I'm hardly insulted. I have no personal interest in monkeys individually or as a species. It does seem even less likely they built the pyramids than one will write War and Peace.

> But some people do tend to think that we are
> smarter than our equally human forebears, only
> mere thousands of years distant from ourselves,
> and therefore, they couldn't have been responsible
> for, for instance, the pyramids, or Stonehenge, or
> Baalbek, or you-name-it. It's possible that I
> mistakenly inferred that this was your viewpoint;
> if so, I apologize. If not....I think you're
> wrong.

I suspect that people are becoming somewhat less intelligent as time goes on. This is hardly an important point since intelligence is overrated. Knowledge is more important on many levels and this is more a function of language, and increasingly a function of language, than intelligence. When predators roamed the Earth it was a combination of luck, intelligence, and fleetness of foot that kept the individual in the gene pool and with children who were also quick.

> Anyway...I'm done. This is not, in any case, an
> area that interests me much; I should probably not
> have got involved in this thread in the first
> place.

I apologize if I came on a little harsh. I've seen this idea so many times that I had a somwhat emotional reaction to it. ...hardly rational. Many ideas seem to come back over and over yet others are censored. I have nothing more to say on the subject.

> And this motive force would be.....?

I still believe that man was drawn to this area because of natural phenomena. The specific phenomenon in question was the existence of cold water geysers which provided a heavy material (water) at height. This water was captured by the "upper eye of Horus" which was on a platform constructed some 75' over the djed pillar through which the water flowed and was controlled.




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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.